The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-26
why L Am q Republican.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
Democrat asked me yesterday why l was
bitter a partisan. / desire to answer HIM in
your paper. Because Democracy IN Indiana is
Dan Voorheesism, and Voorhees, has the worst
record of any in Indiana. He denounced
ereenbacks until 1878, and then declared he
wanted nothing else. He voted for untaxed
bonds and coin Interest-and then opposed
both. He was for fat money and communism
in his speeches. He was the bitter
enemy of capitalists and 'bloated bond
holders" after voting all his life
in the interest of both. He has howled for
the poor and always voted for the rich. He
took the position in 1850 that slavery was d.
vine institution. and that States had a right to
do they pleased in spite of the general gov
ernment That, to my mind. was secession.
pure and simple. All through the war he voted
and did all he could to embarrass the govern
menr. He voted against expelng a member of
the House, John b. Clark. of Missouri, though
he was an officer in the rebel army. and had
fought the boys in blue at Bonneville. July Is,
1861. He voted for the salary grab
and took the So 900. He voted, and
did all in mis- power. Jan. 2S 1863, to
defeat the President in his call for 10000 col
ored troops He gave courage and counsel to
rebels and rebel sympathizers. He called sol
OlsrS Lincoln dogs" and In the last ten years
not less than twenty good citizens have sworn
to it. He called Lincoln tyrant, hypocrite
and demagogue. He has been on the wrong
side of all questions for twenty five years. and is
now trying TO win favor from soldiers, that he
has SO shamelully slandered and abused in the
past. He has been instrumental in
getting. appointments for scalawags and
ex-convicts. He has debauched the public
service, slandered Lincoln. Grant, Garfield and
Morton. and eulogized traitors. During all this
time he has been constantly applauded by the
In6t hao t1a
State in debt, called the Home for Soldiers Or
phans, by legislative enactment the Home for
Feeble minded" appointed officers over them
that have outraged orphan girls and committed
the most hellish acts the orphan boys. (See
the evidence of Democrat in the Knightstown
investigation; how theysrefused to do anything
until after the campaign, and then did
nothing until complaint was made in THE
Legislature by Democrats who quarelinG
with each other They starved the penitentiary
convicts; made the Hospital for the Insane the
home for hungry ward politicians and disrepu-
table "bummers'; punished the poor defenseless
inmates, whose minds wandered on account of
the shivering hand of disease that had touched
them. add made the place worse than the abode
of the damned. Though their Governor and
Attorney general. AID their convention assem-
bled. Of Democrats, declared the Office of
Lieutenant governor vacant aud submitted
the same to the people, when de-
feated, by fraud and violence they usurped
the powers of the rightfully elected Lieutenant
governor and placed the gavel of the Senate in
the hands of a blatherskite. bully and coward.
| am Repub ican. becauseS Grover Cleveland
fshed Decoration day, last, while the
patriotic people did homage to our fallen
heroes. Democratic President has insulted
every ex-Union soldier, sneered at their wounds
and laughed at alleged disease and pain which
have ROBBED men of their youth, and for twenty
years have been gnawing at their vitals; lowered
their flags for that arbitrator, Jake Thomp-
son; appointed unrepentant rebels to Office,
and ignored Union men in his own party; has
asked CONGRESS to strike down protection TO
American labor, and by so doing, degrade labor
in America and cause our workmen to be com
PEELED to compete with the pauper labor of
Europe. I am opposed to Democracy in the
Nation for the reason that it refuses TO admit
Dakota State. because OF her freedo M ov-
ing citizenship, when, in fact, her population
out, am bers at least, that of either of half doz
en- of the Southern States.
MEMBER OF G.. A. r.
NoBLEsvILLE Dec. %.